St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-05
Mr. Carlisle'S House Commit
tees to Be Announced in
January.
Signs Of a Partisan Wrangle
in the Senate Numerous
and 0minOuS.
The Presidents Annual Mes
sage to Be Given Both Bod
les To-MOpPoW.
Special to the Globe.

udy III december Dclng UnS udy pre-
scribed by the constitution for the an
nual meeting of congress, the Fiftieth
congress will be called to order at II
O'Clock tomorrow. Although the house
of representatives is expected to get
fully organized, so far as the election of
officers is concerned, the speaker is not
likely to announce his committees be-
fore January. Mr.. Carlisle is 10th to talk
about what he intends doing as speaker
till he is formally elected, yet he is frank
enough to say that he has task of no
incOnsiderable proportions before him
in the selection of his regular standing
committees, of which there are forty
seven, and the seven or eight special
committees. He finds more impOrtuni-
ties for places OH committees this time
than he did at the organization of either
OF the last two congresses. 1t is barely
possible, he says, that he may have his
committees ready for announcement be-
fore the holiday adjournment, but not
at all probable. The composition of the
committees is very important at this
time. If the proper members are placed
on the right committees much may be
effected towards the tariff and internal
tax reforms and the
THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS
expected at the hands of the dominant
party. If mistakes should be made in
the formation of three or four commit
tees little could be expected of the
session. Much is being said by men,
berS in reference to SO amending the
old rules of the house or forming new
ones that the power of certain commit
tees may be distributed. There is
general fear of the Capitalization of in
tluence. When there were sew
eral of the regular appropria-
ton bills taken from the COM
mittee on appropriations and given to
as many committees, it was hoped that
the control of affairs in the house was
taken from the parent committee, but
it was soon found that the influence of
that committee was not impaired. 1t is
now proposed to compel the committees
having appropriation bills in charge to
report within certain time. say by the
1st of April. This will insure the final
passage of these bills by the end of May,
as it is proposed to so stipulate in the
new rules. 1t is also proposed to COM
pei the committee on ways and means
to report and dispose of on the floor
certain business it will have before it
by a certain time, so as to give the house
the option of adjournment over to next
December by July, if it chooses, with
the consent of the senate.
TIE PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS
will be held before the time the usual
long session adjOurns, if something is
not done to expedite business and end
the session earlier than in former years.
The house will be called to order at
noon by Mr.. Clark, the clerk of the pre-
ceding house, and after a quorum of
members have responded to their
names on call of the roll, the work of
organization will be proceeded with.
The speaker having been duly
elected and the oath admins
vania, the memberS-elect will take their
stand in front of the speakers desk and
qualify. No hitch will occur in this
proceeding, as there is no member
whose prima facie right to a seat is
questioned. The next business will be
the drawing for seats, which will con-
sumo the remainder of the day. Tues
day the presidents message will be re-
ceived, read and referred to the commit
tee OF the whole. 1t has been customary
for some years past to devote one day of
the first week of the session to the in
PRODUCTION of bills for reference to the
appropriate committees when ap-
pointed, but this practice has led to so
much
CONFUSION IN DOCKETING
and care of papers before the commit
tees have organized and selected a
proper custodian for them, that many of
the most experienced congressman are
of the opinion that it should be abOl-
iShed: and probably an effort will be
made to prevent the introduction of
bills until Speaker Carlisle shall have
announced his committee appointments.
Until these important adjuncts are sup
piled, no real legislative business
can be accomplished by the house.
AT the beginning of the fOrty-ninth con-
greSS the chief topic of interest in house
circles was the proposed change of
rules, which was intended to restrict
the power of the committee on apprO-
priatiOnS. Though no such wholesale
revision of the rules as then took place
is again contemplated, the customary
motion to adopt the 1uleS of the preced-
ing house will undoubtedly give rise to
tsOme debate. and an effort will be made
o amend them in some
IMPORTANT PARTICULARS.
A strong effort will be made to have
a rule adopted to prohibit the introduce
tion of private bills in open house and
require that all these measures shall
reach the appropriate committees
through the medium of the petition
box. This would effect saving
of time to the house and of eX-
penSe to the government. At present
l 800 copies are printed of every bill in
and as large majority of the
private measures referred to committees
remain there buried, their printing in
wolves an apparently needless eXpend-
iture of money. Should the proposed
rule be adopted no private bill will be
printed until it is voted upon by the
committee and reported to the house
for its consideration.
IN THE SENATE.
The course of events in the senate
during the week seems to depend Ell
tirely upon the ability of the two par
ties to reach a conclusion with respect
TO the admission of memberS-elect.
An examination of the precedents dis
closes the fact that it has been custom
ary. Immediately after the opening
prayer, for the presiding officer to lay
before the senate the credentials of such
as were not already on
file, after the reading of which the oath
has been administered to all the Sena- |